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				<h1>About IATI Explorer</h1>
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						These help pages are to assist publishers, users and organizations to use IATI data.
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				<h2>Who maintains the IATI Explorer?</h2>
				<p>The Registry site is powered by  <a target="_blank" href="http://www.aidtransparency.net">International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI)</a> and
					<a target="_blank" href="http://www.developmentgateway.org">Development Gateway (DG)</a>. Its content and quality of data is based on the 
					<a target="_blank" href="http://www.iatiregistry.org">IATI Registry</a> information. 
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				<h2>How do I use data?</h2>
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					 There are two options you can do:
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					1. Explore Data
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					2. Export Raw Data
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				<h2>How do I explore data?</h2>
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					 Click on Explore Data option from the top menu, filter the data you want to check and press "Launch Explorer".
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				<h2>How do I explore and view data?</h2>
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					 Click on Explore Data option from the top menu, filter the data you want to check and press "Launch Explorer". Then check the information regarding projects that is displayed or click on "View Details" to check the projects information and to be able to export data about project in different formats.
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				<h2>How do I export raw data?</h2>
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					 Click on Export Raw Data option from the top menu, filter the data you want to check and press "Export Raw Data".
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				<h2>Direct access to filtered data</h2>
					<p>The Explorer also provides direct access to slices through IATI data for programmers. The Explorer caches copies of all IATI files in it's document store for the convenience of third-party data users and makes it possible to fetch back activity records from across different original data files. For uses that rely on having the very latest data, you may wish to go direct to donor files on the IATI Registry.
					
					The Explorer can convert data into a number of formats, providing it back as XML, JSON and CSV (coming soon).
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					Two access methods are supported:
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					<h4>A RESTful API</h4>
					<p>This allows you to fetch activity records and lists from the data with simple URLs.
					
					For example, the URL below can be used to fetch an individual activity in XML or JSON format
					
					<a href="http://iatiexplorer.org/agg/entity/~/filter/iati-identifier/GB-1-200286-104/format/xml">http://iatiexplorer.org/agg/entity/~/filter/iati-identifier/GB-1-200286-104/format/xml</a> (or <a href="http://iatiexplorer.org/agg/entity/~/filter/iati-identifier/GB-1-200286-104/format/json">in JSON</a>).
					
					<em>Full API documentation coming</em>
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					<h4>An xpath endpoint</h4>
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					You can run <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/">XPATH expressions</a> directly against the Explorer's document store at <a href="http://iatiexplorer.org:8082/exist/rest/db/iAG/xml/">http://iatiexplorer.org:8082/exist/rest/db/iAG/xml/</a>.
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					<th>Query parameter</th>
					<th>Description</th>
					<th>Example</th>
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					<td  style="background:#f9f9f9;">_query=</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">An <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/">XPATH expression</a> to be run against the data</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">?_query=//iati-activity[iati-identifier='GB-1-200286-104']</td>
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					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">_howmany=</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">An how many results to return for the query (defaults to 10).</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">?_howmany=20</td>
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					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">_start=</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">Result to start at (for paging through results).</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">?_start=20</td>
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					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">_xsl=</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">The URI of an XML Style Sheet to apply to the results.</td>
					<td style="background:#f9f9f9;">?_xsl=https://github.com/aidinfolabs/IATI-XSLT/raw/master/templates/html/activity-list.xsl</td>
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					Example: http://iatiexplorer.org:8082/exist/rest/db/iAG/xml/?_query=//iati-activity[reporting-org/@ref='GB-1']&amp;_howmany=20&amp;_start=20&amp;_xsl=https://github.com/aidinfolabs/IATI-XSLT/raw/master/templates/html/activity-list.xsl
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					<h2>More about IATI</h2>
					The International Aid Transparency Initiative aims to make information about aid activities and spending easier to access, use and understand.
					
					You can read more about IATI on the <a href="http://www.AidTransparency.net">AidTransparency.net</a> website.
									
				
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